C ould Earth once have had a planetary ring like the ones around Saturn? Scientists from Monash University in Australia think ...

Madagascar’s pigs, for example, though not native, have made themselves essential to the survival of truly native species. Similar relationships are suspected to hold in South America between rabbits ...

If the Liberal Democrats want to replace the Conservatives, they must move further right on the economy ...

The accusation of Western double standards, gleefully amplified by Russia and China, resonated across the halls of UN ...

Neither supporters nor opponents of independence have much to crow about. A YouGov poll suggests that, excluding those who do ...

The latest news in US politics, with coverage of President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the Democrats, Donald Trump and the ...

The Federal Reserve’s decision to lower interest rates by half a percentage point, announced on September 18th, is momentous ...

His father’s tears persuaded him. Francisco Lopera, then in his first year of medical training, had gone with him to see his grandmother in Medellín. His father had not wanted him to study medicine; ...

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Blaming a hack may help Hizbullah avoid talk of a more humiliating alternative: that Israel sabotaged the pagers themselves, ...

For their part, carmakers like hybrids because they are typically as profitable as petrol-powered cars—unlike BEV s, most of ...

E ach year China makes as much steel as the rest of the world combined. The vast scale of its output—around 1bn tonnes a year ...